Following up on the message below from earlier this month, one consequence of the Met's Image Library closure is the elimination of my position as Chief Librarian. I will continue to be a member of ARLIS and keep in touch with the many friends and colleagues that I have met through this wonderful organization. Regretfully, I will not be attending the conference in Toronto. I do hope to re-emerge soon in some professional capacity in the art library world.
My personal contact info is below.
Andrew Gessner
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Message from Carrie Rebora Barratt, Associate Director for Collections and Administration, Metropolitan Museum of Art:
My personal contact info is below.
Andrew Gessner
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| Subject: |  | Changes in the Image Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| From: | | "Ferrari, Roberto" |
| Reply-To: | | Ferrari, Roberto |
| Date: | | Wed, 1 Feb 2012 10:33:40 -0500 |
Message from Carrie Rebora Barratt, Associate Director for Collections and Administration, Metropolitan Museum of Art:
In line with other comparable
cultural institutions across the country, the Metropolitan Museum of
Art has long been studying best practices for the preservation and
dissemination of our image collection, which exists in both analog and
digital formats.
A few years ago, the Met Images project took the first strategic steps
toward converting and cataloguing our images to digital format to make
them easily accessible to staff and available online to the public.
Based on internal collaborations and changes in
the image industry, the Museum has decided to leverage the knowledge
base that spans across departments by bringing staff closer together
for related projects. Effective February 1, 2012, staff from the Image
Library will be integrated into the recently formed
Digital Media Department.
While individual roles and
responsibilities may shift to align with the Museum’s program of
digital imaging work, the services that the public has come to expect
from the Museum are still available.
The work of assessing the
analog images collections, which has been on-going, will continue, with
the goal of making specific material secure and accessible for the
future. For specific inquiries related to archival analog images or
for general image-related
inquires, continue to contact us at [log in to unmask]. To request permission to publish Museum images, consult the Image Resources section of the Museum’s website
at: http://www.metmuseum.org/research/image-resources.